Yep, that revolution caused you to loose a seat you had held since the civil war. In the words of Nancy Pelosi it was a win for her two more votes gained Tuesday night.
Democratic talking points, as rehearsed and repeated by the left-wing media, wanted to portray the New York congressional race this past week as a "civil war" among Republicans.
If there's a war on, though, it's probably more akin to the American Revolution.
This goes back to the mid-1990s, when Republican leaders in Washington -- newly installed after the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 -- turned on their own troops. They got fat on Washington power and the Capitol social scene. Their concerns turned away from the people who put them there and toward remaining in power.
Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich was not immune. At one point, angry at colleagues in the House who wanted to maintain a conservative approach to governing, Gingrich derisively called them "you conservatives" and demanded they explain themselves to the Republican caucus. They did -- and the caucus accepted their explanation.
But that was still the quick beginning of the slow end of the Republican heyday in Washington. The end finally came in the elections of 2006 and 2008 -- after years of Bush faux conservatism.
Today, not surprisingly, nearly half of conservatives in America do not identify themselves as Republican in a Rasmussen Reports poll.
That should awaken the powers that be in the Republican Party. The party long ago strayed from its base.
If there's another revolution -- this time in 2010 -- it won't be legitimately called a "Republican" revolution. It will be a conservative one.
Sadly, there's a difference nowadays.
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Yep, that revolution caused you to loose a seat you had held since the civil war. In the words of Nancy Pelosi it was a win for her two more votes gained Tuesday night.
I've got to disagree totally with this editorial. It's 180 degrees out of line with the facts. It's the drift away from conservative values that caused the change to a form of Republicanism that was indistinguishable from the Dems once the 1994 revolution was complete. Self serving and power hungry approaches to government drove the base away...again. Disappointed and disgruntled conservatives stayed away from the polls in droves in 2006 and with the EXTREMELY moderate McCain as the Repub candidate for president (thanks to George Soros' money) there was no reason to vote in 2008. The scenario laid out in this editorial looks like something TechLover or Cain would write. (hardly factual, but with just enough truth to make the misinformed writer feel justified) The ladies on The View would probably like this.
The moderate / undecided swing voters that decide most of our national elections are not pleased with the direction the mad Marxist is taking this country and there will be a revolution led by the new axis of evil. Obama, Reid, Pelosi. They'll lead the control of congress straight away from the Dems and turn out the messiah. Let's pray America can survive their leadership until then.
I just want to be the first to congratulate the passage of the Health Reform Act last night. I was able to follow it live on c-span until the vote came in. We should all be very proud of this acomplishment. Our president appealed for bi-Cameral support but again the Republicans shot themselves in the foot. History will once again show that it is the Democrats that are progressive in their thinking and who are concerned about all Americans as we all should be. If my taxes go up a bit to help those who are un-insured, so be it. You have to think about those other than just yourself. I will not be selfish. After all, It all belongs to God from where it came. Now, I want everyone to have a blessed day and go ro the service of your choice. How can you just sit home on this beautiful fall day? No golf for me. This is the Sabbath, keep it holy. No cutting grass for me on the sabbath. No wonder some of us think and act as we do. There is no God in our life. Learn to love and care for other people. You'll feel a whole lot better about yourself. HELLO! HELLO!
Typical 234, the house version of the bill passed by a 211-215 vote.(few of those voting for it will return to office) There are three more steps to pass before this goes to the president for signing. The senate version must pass, then the two must go to a joint committee to be blended into a compromise bill which must them be returned to each house to be voted on again. If it survives those three steps and is passed in both the house and senate, it will THEN make it to Obama's desk for signature. Learn how the system works and hold your celebration (or whining) until that point.
Patricia: I seem to recall the Republicans having primaries that elected their Presidential candidate in 2008. Sorry if researching and provding accurate information offends you (not really). We should all look up to you and follow your example of receiving our "facts" from Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc. with no fact checking or research.
TechLover, some of us are aware of some of the manipulations of the system and some of us aren't. We should all look up to the example of truth, if that is what we want. Otherwise, we can look up to your example of unwitting collaboration.
Patricia: I'll stick with accuracy. You stick with your paranoid, conspiracy minded hucksters on talk radio and Faux Gnus. They seem to fit in well with your factless observations and flowery condescension.
Obama has run every Southern white Christian Conservative crazy. They are so obsessed with transforming his image to be a black man from the projects that they have no time to deal facts or reality. People losing their jobs, Conservatives are worried about Obama playing a round of golf. 40 million uninsured, Conservatives can't debate issues because they are at townhall meetings throwing chairs at liberals. Problems in Afghanistan, Conservatives can't reason with Democrats on a plan of attack because they are playing on their computers all day long searching for a birth certificate in Kenya that doesn't exist. If Conservatives placed the same emphasis on improving the realities of working Americans as they do cheating on their wives or trying to sleep with underaged boys, imagine how great America would become again. I know this is wishful thinking because they are again to busy trying to consecrate Joe Wilson and Rush Limbaugh to become Prophets in the Southern white Christian Conservative insanity movement...
Faux Gnus? How clever you are. Name a specific example of something Fox reported that wasn't true. You speak of condescension, then use the term Faux Gnus? Interesting.
Why, cparker, is it than when you disagree with Obama's policies, and you state the specific policies that you disagree with and why, that people like you always disregard what you've said and insist that the REAL reason you disagree is because of his race. That argument is so tired it is unbelievable.
Gary Condit guilty, wmds, etc etc, always slanted, it's called humor, the right wing is a little short in that department
Nice editorial. I chose to leave the Republican Party during its presidential candidates' debate in South Carolina. When Ron Paul was booed for honestly saying our nation is broke and ought to scale back its military operations, I knew I no longer belonged. I couldn't vote for McCain as supposedly the lesser of two evils, because a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. It's curious how government and the debt manage to grow no matter who's in power--Republicans or Democrats. Since conservatives prefer limited government and less debt, why should anyone think the GOP is a bastion of conservatism? The GOP is the party of corporate welfare.
WP/PT..I LOVE how your first post started off..(in my best lumberjack voice)"I've got to disagree totally with this editorial". Like we were EXPECTING you to agree with the facts. SURE. lmao
Tigger: It's obvious that to many, not all, opposition to Obama is based on race, they may still disagree with policies but the underlying factor is racial, check out some of 55 f 100, or wizzards posts, "Presbojangles' etc. I know quite a few folks, unfortunately, that feel this way. Hell, my dad even said that he "didn't think coloreds were ready". Dad is in his 80s and he's my dad so I'll keep hanging around him, the others we don't associate with anymore.
LMAOOL!! @ Tech and Justus! W00Ty woot woot..!! hee hee
Today is the day after Congressional passage of the greatest law in the last 100 years and not a word from the Chronicle. Did someone take their pencils away? I will say the Republicans did increase their ranks bt about 39 people last night and as a party member I will assure Mr. Barrow that we will not rest until he is out of office. I see nothing wrong with him not voting for the democratic plan. I also see him for what he really is, a closet republican who voted as if he was bought and paid for by the insurance industry. When he was trying to get elected last time, my wife and I walked the street knocking on doors and getting the vote out. We will be doing the same in 2010, unfortunately it will be for a different candidate next time, one who believes in supporting his electors.
TechLover, it's Prezbhojangles, Cuz. By the way, how's your "O" tattoo doing? Have you made the last payment yet?
Posted by jack234 on Sun Nov 8, 2009 6:27 AM: "This is the Sabbath, keep it holy. No cutting grass for me on the sabbath. No wonder some of us think and act as we do. There is no God in our life. Learn to love and care for other people. You'll feel a whole lot better about yourself. HELLO! HELLO!" I agree with you about the importance of living for God, but the sabbath isn't today. It ran from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.
Typical whipping post. Got his civic lesson facts wrong. The vote in favor of passage in the house was 220, 2 more than needed.
Like I said, unlike you I watched it live on my big screem, while you screamed. HELLO! HELLO! We are all very proud today. One Republican didn't care about a few disrespectful townhall clowns drinking the Rush tea and a few [filtered word]s like "off his rocker" Beck. As long as they have a few followers, Beck and ROVE will continue to write and sell books and make millions. HELLO! HELLO! Rove writes a book every week. HELLO! HELLO!
Tigger?! All the names (folks on THESE thread, on THIS AC newspaper) that they call President O, all, have racist undertones. Pull yo head out cha orifice. It is about race
55: Sorry no tats. Don't believe in them. Thanks for proving my point.
WP/PT, I've read your posts for a while and I sense an extremely angry person. I don't know why you are so angry but the resulting negativity makes you come across as an extremely unpleasant person. Right now/here you direct your anger at anyone who differs from your version of conservatism, but the anger clearly goes much deeper. Even if we agreed on pretty much everything, I don't think I would like being around you. Fortunately for both of us that is not likely to ever happen.
OK all you socialist lovers, pop your Champaign bottles for game #1, 2 to go!
Conservatives? A Revolution or on the Ropes?
Just summed up what we already knew. Conservatives are revolting.
CobaltGeorge - Real socialist will get out French Champaign and drink just half the bottle. Responsible people you know! But on second thought, what the heck, drink it all and get another bottle later.
Come on guys....You have to balance the checkbook sometime. There is no money to pay for health care for all. It would be nice if would could furnish everyone free health care and no one had to pay, but we can't. There is over 10 percent unemployment now. We simply can't spend money we don't have or expect small businesses barely hanging on to fund health care.
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